Caterpillars Preschool Marks Tey

Today, we all got together to enjoy some well deserved chill out time on Mersea Island. 🏖
We hope you are all enjoying the summer break and we look forward to seeing you all in September! ☀️
Petra, Helen, Charlotte, Teresa, Alison&Sarah

What a fantastic day! Thank you to all the parents who joined us today for our Sports Day and Leavers Celebrations. We had a great day. The children did so well. We are all so proud of them. We will miss all the children from our Apples room as they move up to Reception in September 🦋 you have been absolute superstars ⭐️ It has been a pleasure to be part of your learning journey. 🫶
Petra, Helen, Teresa, Charlotte, Alison & Sarah

For all of our children in the Apples room starting Reception this September, please read.

Welcome to the launch of our Starting Reception Campaign! If you, or anyone you know, has a child starting Reception Class in September, we will be sharing a range of top tips to help you to support your child with a smooth transition.
The campaign will be running until mid-September and will include daily posts at 7pm with various videos and links. Please share with your family and friends too so everyone can get involved – get ready to start Reception Class with Talk, Listen, Cuddle! In this video is Jo, Language and Communication Strategy Officer in Essex, introducing the campaign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbvdytxC5mY

We are busy practising for our Sports Day this Wednesday. Please remember this event is for all children and families. We are looking forward to seeing you all there😊
We continue to learn about our feelings and emotions. We are learning to name our emotions, understand them and try to find a solution through stories, puppets and role play. The children from our Apples room continue joining in some more challenging activities to prepare them for school.

We had another fun week at Caterpillars, practising for our Sports Day in the shade of our forest garden, having fun with our new flower sprays, playing together in the mud kitchen and observing our caterpillars turning into cocoons. Have a lovely weekend everyone! The 🐛 team

Very excited to welcome Sergeant Wright (one of the children's dads) to Caterpillars today. He told us all about the role of a police officer. We tried on some uniform, hats and other protective clothing. The children enjoyed sitting in the car and listening to the sirens. All children were rewarding with a special Police sticker. Thank you David, we really appreciate you taking time out of your morning.

We introduced Pantosaurus today, children loved the song and had fun designing their own paper pants 🦖 The very hungry caterpillars sparked some curiosity in the Apples room, did you know caterpillars have no bones that's why they can wiggle? 🐛 'People Who Help Us' sensory trays were a fun way to explore fire engines. Our new basketball hoop in the garden was very popular and we might have some basketballers in the making 🏀😊

Something very exciting arrived at Caterpillars Pre-school today! Our very own, real tiny and very hungry caterpillars 🐛 We will watch them grow, transform into cocoons, and then butterflies. We have a beautiful new butterfly book to look through, and find out more about Painted Lady butterflies and its life cycle. Watch this journey! 🐛🦋